An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge.

The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave.

An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge.

There is a distinction, but no opposition, between theory and practice. Each to a certain extent supposes the other. Theory is dependent on practice; practice must have preceded theory.

Truth like a torch, the more 'tis shock, it shines.

A judgment is the mental act by which one thing is affirmed or denied of another.

Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind.